Jean Schwab
@jeanschwab.bsky.social
Avid reader, aspiring writer, excellent knitter, okay crocheter. Writing center person.
I'm the kind of person who reads about book design for fun.
Check my new site where I write as Cat Albert about books and other stuff I love!
https://catalbert.com
I'm the kind of person who reads about book design for fun.
Check my new site where I write as Cat Albert about books and other stuff I love!
https://catalbert.com
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This is largely true!
"Counter to what university administrators and mainstream pundits seem to believe, students are not clamoring to use AI tools. Tech companies are aggressively pushing them. School districts and universities are partnering with companies . . . for fear of being left behind."
"Counter to what university administrators and mainstream pundits seem to believe, students are not clamoring to use AI tools. Tech companies are aggressively pushing them. School districts and universities are partnering with companies . . . for fear of being left behind."
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is largely true!
"Counter to what university administrators and mainstream pundits seem to believe, students are not clamoring to use AI tools. Tech companies are aggressively pushing them. School districts and universities are partnering with companies . . . for fear of being left behind."
"Counter to what university administrators and mainstream pundits seem to believe, students are not clamoring to use AI tools. Tech companies are aggressively pushing them. School districts and universities are partnering with companies . . . for fear of being left behind."
This seems accurate.
My most-used words in 2025 were:
1. "lotr" (55×)
2. "book" (47×)
3. "lotreread" (41×)
4. "students" (39×)
5. "amreading" (34×)
See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest
My most-used words in 2025 were:
1. "lotr" (55×)
2. "book" (47×)
3. "lotreread" (41×)
4. "students" (39×)
5. "amreading" (34×)
See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest
Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025
A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.
anisota.net
December 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This seems accurate.
My most-used words in 2025 were:
1. "lotr" (55×)
2. "book" (47×)
3. "lotreread" (41×)
4. "students" (39×)
5. "amreading" (34×)
See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest
My most-used words in 2025 were:
1. "lotr" (55×)
2. "book" (47×)
3. "lotreread" (41×)
4. "students" (39×)
5. "amreading" (34×)
See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest
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This was cool and you don't need to sign in - just use the "search username" option.
Hello moths,
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025
A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.
anisota.net
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This was cool and you don't need to sign in - just use the "search username" option.
This is the energy I’m looking to bring into 2026. And to end 2025 with, what the hell. I’m still mad at my neighbor at the far end of the street who let her dog shit in my yard that one time ten years ago.
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This is the energy I’m looking to bring into 2026. And to end 2025 with, what the hell. I’m still mad at my neighbor at the far end of the street who let her dog shit in my yard that one time ten years ago.
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It’s not making me stupid.
It just makes me angry that sadist techbros are pushing it everywhere so that people are trading in the skills they can build, skills lying dormant because they’re scared (or lazy/busy/whatever) of TRYING to write or create art (or whatever).
We. Do. Not. Need. It.
It just makes me angry that sadist techbros are pushing it everywhere so that people are trading in the skills they can build, skills lying dormant because they’re scared (or lazy/busy/whatever) of TRYING to write or create art (or whatever).
We. Do. Not. Need. It.
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It’s not making me stupid.
It just makes me angry that sadist techbros are pushing it everywhere so that people are trading in the skills they can build, skills lying dormant because they’re scared (or lazy/busy/whatever) of TRYING to write or create art (or whatever).
We. Do. Not. Need. It.
It just makes me angry that sadist techbros are pushing it everywhere so that people are trading in the skills they can build, skills lying dormant because they’re scared (or lazy/busy/whatever) of TRYING to write or create art (or whatever).
We. Do. Not. Need. It.
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This shit is just planned out and orchestrated out in public. Her mother is a fucking conservative podcast host and lawyer, this isn't some kinda quirk or accident, this paper was written with the express purpose to gin up another culture war about trans people in academia and it's working.
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This shit is just planned out and orchestrated out in public. Her mother is a fucking conservative podcast host and lawyer, this isn't some kinda quirk or accident, this paper was written with the express purpose to gin up another culture war about trans people in academia and it's working.
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like big tobacco funding cancer research
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
like big tobacco funding cancer research
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Thread.
A quick thread on the academic freedom angle to the OU situation:
First, grading is part of academic freedom b/c it involves instructors applying their disciplinary expertise - both when they set assignments, and when they grade student work
First, grading is part of academic freedom b/c it involves instructors applying their disciplinary expertise - both when they set assignments, and when they grade student work
December 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Thread.
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When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
Currently reading a book that I will probably end up enjoying, but I may need to read it some other time. The main character is a ball of anxiety, and he is stressing me out.
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Currently reading a book that I will probably end up enjoying, but I may need to read it some other time. The main character is a ball of anxiety, and he is stressing me out.
“The skills needed to thrive in an AI world might counterintuitively be exactly those that the liberal arts have long cultivated.”
I don’t think this idea is at all counterintuitive, actually.
I don’t think this idea is at all counterintuitive, actually.
@theatlantic.com discusses why it’s problematic that #universities, after years of doing essentially nothing to address the rise of #generative #artificial #intelligence (#AI), are now scrambling to do too much with it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... (gift link)
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
www.theatlantic.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“The skills needed to thrive in an AI world might counterintuitively be exactly those that the liberal arts have long cultivated.”
I don’t think this idea is at all counterintuitive, actually.
I don’t think this idea is at all counterintuitive, actually.
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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saw a woman today wearing a shirt that said:
WARNING
I match energy
so you decide
how we gon act
WARNING
I match energy
so you decide
how we gon act
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
saw a woman today wearing a shirt that said:
WARNING
I match energy
so you decide
how we gon act
WARNING
I match energy
so you decide
how we gon act
lol at all the Black Friday and holiday deal emails I keep getting. Cute that these companies assume I have the disposable income to buy things beyond the necessities right now.
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
lol at all the Black Friday and holiday deal emails I keep getting. Cute that these companies assume I have the disposable income to buy things beyond the necessities right now.
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I'm an "A.i." abolitionist.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
July 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I'm an "A.i." abolitionist.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
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christ almighty
November 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
christ almighty
“We should not give our children, whose brains are vulnerable and malleable, books created by computers. We shouldn’t give them books created carelessly.”
AI Is Coming for Your Toddler’s Bedtime Story | Mother Jones buff.ly/kv8udSI
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“We should not give our children, whose brains are vulnerable and malleable, books created by computers. We shouldn’t give them books created carelessly.”
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in the hospital for a blood clot near my liver. i’m ok. take care of yourselves, friends.
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
in the hospital for a blood clot near my liver. i’m ok. take care of yourselves, friends.
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Trump and House Republicans are pushing to ban states' ability to place safety guardrails on AI.
That could be disastrous for your:
—Kids' safety online
—Data privacy
—Energy bill
But it would be good for:
—Big Tech
Trump’s priorities. Not yours.
That could be disastrous for your:
—Kids' safety online
—Data privacy
—Energy bill
But it would be good for:
—Big Tech
Trump’s priorities. Not yours.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Trump and House Republicans are pushing to ban states' ability to place safety guardrails on AI.
That could be disastrous for your:
—Kids' safety online
—Data privacy
—Energy bill
But it would be good for:
—Big Tech
Trump’s priorities. Not yours.
That could be disastrous for your:
—Kids' safety online
—Data privacy
—Energy bill
But it would be good for:
—Big Tech
Trump’s priorities. Not yours.
Imagine “feeling safer asking ‘stupid questions’” of a technology that has one core feature, and that is being confidently, sometimes hilariously, but often dangerously wrong.
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Imagine “feeling safer asking ‘stupid questions’” of a technology that has one core feature, and that is being confidently, sometimes hilariously, but often dangerously wrong.
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This is very encouraging testimony and jibes entirely with what I've observed traveling and speaking about More Than Words. 1. Students want to learn. 2. They can be suspicious about school as a place for learning. 3. Making class and experiences more human works. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is very encouraging testimony and jibes entirely with what I've observed traveling and speaking about More Than Words. 1. Students want to learn. 2. They can be suspicious about school as a place for learning. 3. Making class and experiences more human works. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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This is happening in cross-stitch too. There are a lot of people making "patterns" that are just AI pictures or real art that has been run through a pixel filter that doesn't look good, doesn't match up with DMC threads, and doesn't make any sense.
I hate that we have to scrutinize everything🫠
I hate that we have to scrutinize everything🫠
AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here's why that's happening and what can be done about it.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/t...
#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/t...
#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright
The AI Invasion of Knitting and Crochet
AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here’s why that’s happening and what can be done about it.
www.plagiarismtoday.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This is happening in cross-stitch too. There are a lot of people making "patterns" that are just AI pictures or real art that has been run through a pixel filter that doesn't look good, doesn't match up with DMC threads, and doesn't make any sense.
I hate that we have to scrutinize everything🫠
I hate that we have to scrutinize everything🫠
It has been a stressful day. I allowed myself one minute to completely lose my shit. Then I made myself find it again and get on with things.
The support of family and friends made the shit-losing moment possible. They also make it possible to pull it all together again.
The support of family and friends made the shit-losing moment possible. They also make it possible to pull it all together again.
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It has been a stressful day. I allowed myself one minute to completely lose my shit. Then I made myself find it again and get on with things.
The support of family and friends made the shit-losing moment possible. They also make it possible to pull it all together again.
The support of family and friends made the shit-losing moment possible. They also make it possible to pull it all together again.
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Always worth taking a moment to remind you if you’re pirating authors’ book you’re a shitty person. You can rail that our profession isn’t a profession all you want. You can paint yourself as an online revolutionary liberating ideas. It’s all bullshit.
You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.
You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Always worth taking a moment to remind you if you’re pirating authors’ book you’re a shitty person. You can rail that our profession isn’t a profession all you want. You can paint yourself as an online revolutionary liberating ideas. It’s all bullshit.
You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.
You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!